In article <3A344529.80DF4A50@mac.com> , Dawn McKnight <McK### [at] maccom> 
wrote:

> I normally use POV-Ray v3.1g for Macintosh, but because I need to render
> a bunch of images, and I figure the Sun Enterprise 220R at work is
> probably going to do that faster, and with less interference with my
> daily computer use, I've been trying to get that to work.
>
> I downloaded (with my sysop's assistance) the SunOS binary, and he
> installed it.  Now, it'll open the file and start to read it, but when
> it gets to my first #local definition, it complains.  I should note that
> this .inc file works fine under both Mac and Windows versions of POVRay.
>
> Is the #local statement not supported under the SunOS version, or is
> there a file that hasn't been properly installed, or.... what?


If you got the version from povray.org, please not that it is 3.02, not
3.1g.  If you got it elsewhere, please make sure you got a 3.1g and not a
previous version.

The easiest way to find out if it is a previous version is to run it.  Then
look at the console output.  It should near the beginning show the version
number.

If you currently have the 3.02 binary from povray.org and want to use 3.1g,
there are two possible solutions:

- Get the Unix source code and compile POV-Ray 3.1g yourself.  This may
sound more difficult than it actually is.  If you run into problems, just
post them in povray.unix and explain that you have never done so before.

- There is most likely a compiled version of 3.1g somewhere on the net. I
don't know where, but I am sure there is one somewhere and someone in these
newsgroups knows.

If you have 3.1g installed, I don't know what is wrong.


     Thorsten

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On Sun, 10 Dec 2000 20:08:25 -0700 Dawn McKnight wrote:

>I downloaded (with my sysop's assistance) the SunOS binary, and he
>installed it.  Now, it'll open the file and start to read it, but when
>it gets to my first #local definition, it complains.  I should note that
>this .inc file works fine under both Mac and Windows versions of POVRay.

  Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> emailed me the following:

  If I remember correctly, there's no 3.1 binary available in the
POV-Ray site, only the 3.0 (which doesn't support #locals and #macros).
  If you want the 3.1g binary for SunOS, you'll have to compile it
yourself.
  I have done this tens or hundreds of times now (with the official
version and many versions of MegaPov) so it's more or less routine to
me.
  However, setting up the makefile for compiling in SunOS required a bit
of work at the beginning (there's nothing wrong in the makefile itself,
you only have to know which lines to uncomment, which ones to comment,
which search paths to change and where, etc; the makefile is pretty well
commented so that helps a lot).
  Just download the generic unix source code of POV-Ray 3.1g, edit
carefully the Makefile and compile (if you don't have zlib and libpng
installed on your system you'll have to compile them before compiling
POV-Ray; they come with the POV-Ray source code in their own
directories).
  If you have any problem compiling, feel free to ask me.
  I could also compile a (statically linked) binary file and send it to
you if you want.


			- Warp
(followups to povray.unix)

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